Salomon Bloemhof, also known as Sal, born in Amsterdam on 24 December 1912, was a son of Mozes Bloemhof and Sippora Wertheim. Salomon had one brother, Louis, who still lived at home and was unmarried and who, like Salomon was killed during the Shoah.
Sal worked in men’s fashion, was warehouse clerk, sales representative and office clerk. On 29 February 1940 he married in Amsterdam Roza Agstteribbe, usually known as Ro, the youngest daughter of Liepman Agstteribbe and Sara Schaap. The couple had no children.
The 29th of February 1940 was also the date on which Sal Bloemhof and his newly wed wife were registered at their own address in Kribbestraat 27 1st floor in Amsterdam-South. Before, Sal lived at home with his parents at Plantage Middenlaan 32 1st floor and Ro with her mother (who was widowed) at Plantage Kerklaan 4 1st floor.
Ro Agstteribbe, Salomon's wife, survived the Shoah. With falsified I.D. cards, she had gone into hiding with her older sister Henriette (Jetty) where they worked as a childcare workers in a children's home in Amersfoort, which was then led by Aunt Hertha. Because she no longer had a house or nothing, after the war she was taken into the house of non-Jewish friends on the Amstelveenseweg, together with the rest of the family. This family had also helped them during the war. On 12 September 1945 a note was written on her registration card of the Jewish Council: "Back, address now Amstelveenseweg 47 II in Amsterdam"
Sal Bloemhof, however, was sent on 3 September 1942 with 138 other Jews to the Avegoor labor camp. Later, this labor camp was renamed as Palästina labor camp. Avegoor was the training center of the Dutch SS, where the Jewish forced laborers were put to work with the expansion of the complex. At the end of November 1942, the activities there were completed and the forced laborers were sent to Westerbork. Here they were admitted to hospital by order of camp commander Gemmeker.
According to the registration card of Salomon BLoemhof, he arrived in Westerbork on November 22, 1942. No record was found on his registration card about a stay in a hospital barrack, but it was found that he ended up in barrack 73 on 28 April 1943. On 4 May 1943, Sal Bloemhof was deported to Sobibor, where he arrived there on 7 May 1943 was immediately killed.
Sources among others: City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration cards of Mozes Bloemhof and Liepman Agstteribbe, archive card of Salomon Bloemhof and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Salomon Bloemhof and Roza Bloemhof-Agstteribbe, an addition of a visitor of the website and the website Jewish Labor camps Palästina.